<div>Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a <br>musical composition created in the absence of God? Or, <br>is God always a real presence in the arts? Steiner <br>passionately argues that a transcendent reality grounds <br>all genuine art and human communication.<br><br>"A real tour de force. . . . All the virtues of the <br>author's astounding intelligence and compelling rhetoric <br>are evident from the first sentence onward."--Anthony C. <br>Yu, <i>Journal of Religion</i><br><br></div>